Radcliffe Camera

It was built between 1737 and 1748 and inaugurated on 13 April 1749.

Physician John Radcliffe, who died in 1714, left £40,000 for the library, which paid for its construction and upkeep.

An underground bookstore built beneath the square in 1909–1912 connects to the Bodleian by tunnel and is now the Gladstone Link reading rooms.